A weekly reflection on a topical issue.
Adam Gopnik examines the issues raised by the row between Serena Williams and an umpire."The questio
Adam Gopnik on why the prefixes we use speak volumes about us.The "pregnant prefix", Adam writes, "i
"To stand in the corridor of a crowded locked ward in a contemporary British mental hospital" writes
Tom Shakespeare is downsizing. But what to do with his books?He points out that he has nothing like
Tom Shakespeare on why he rejects the idea of a bucket list. He proposes instead an idea dreamt up b
As we near the end of four years of collective reflection on the First World War, Michael Morpurgo t
Michael Morpurgo argues it's time to think again over Brexit. "It is surely time to accept that we h
Michael Morpurgo on a new initiative to help refugee children. Michael says "it shames us" that Brit
John Gray argues that in the Brexit debate, few Remainers seem to have noticed the illiberal and fra
Sarah Dunant on her uneasy conundrum over inheritance tax. "Like most intelligent beings", Sarah wri
Adam Gopnik sets out to determine the difference between cliche and universal truth. Via Homer, Shak
Will Self argues that the past is not "a foreign country". He says we often have delusions about the
"What would it be like to consciously feel you were nothing but a robotic phenotype", asks Will Self
Will Self once wrote that he could no longer identify as a Jew at all. As anti-Semitism once again c
"Cute mobile machines with arms, hands and big friendly eyes reminding you to take your next pill...
On 5th June 1968, Bobby Kennedy was assassinated. In one of the most famous editions of Radio 4's "L
Amit Chaudhuri on why he believes modern movies have a "spiritual glumness". "Digitisation's subterr
Sarah Dunant gives a personal view on Ireland's abortion referendum. She remembers one of her first
"Calcutta was born old", writes Amit Chaudhuri. But restoration work of old buildings in the city, h
"My problem with words is something I have never written down or spoken out about". The writer, Stel
